Great Interview with James Jankowiak
Chicago artist James Jankowiak (Casper) interview on Vocalo 89.5fm w/ JDLP by Jdlp (Jesse De La Pena ) on Mixcloud
Hey everyone, check out this great interview with James Jankowiak that aired last week on Vocalo 89.5! James talks about his artist practice and his upcoming show at Johalla!
For more information about the show (OPENING THIS FRIDAY @ 7PM!), go to johallaprojects.com or look below!
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JOHALLA PROJECTS and RATIONAL PARK present PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
(from L to R: Zak Sally, page from Sammy the Mouse; John Porcellino, panel from King-Cat; Dale Flattum)
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
One Night Only
Saturday, March 24, 7pm to 11pm
Rational Park, 2557 W. North Avenue
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, a collaboration between Johalla Projects and Rational Park, is a one-night group show celebrating the sustainability of DIY practices, featuring the work of Zak Sally, John Porcellino and Dale Flattum. The show, presented salon-style, will give viewers a chance to see the scope of the original works of art. Hand-assembled and/or printed zines, comic books, gig posters and screen-printed sculptures will be available for viewers to purchase. They are physical objects, hand-made and hand-distributed, reminders of the artistic means accessible to individuals with a desire to do it themselves.
The show will be the release event for Sally’s new comic book, SAMMY THE MOUSE, Porcellino’s latest issue of King-Cat #72, and Flattum’s TOOTH: The Graphic Art of Dale Flattum.
For more information, please contact Grace Tran at grace.pt.tran@gmail.com or 630/234-3992.
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More Great Press for Heidi Norton
Reviews and interest keep rolling in for Heidi Norton: Reasons to Cut Into the Earth!
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Reasons to Write Into Art: On Textual Collaboration with Artist Heidi Norton
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Check out some awesome press for tonight’s opening!
HEIDI NORTON’S REASONS TO CUT INTO THE EARTH
Tonight, from 7-10PM!
February 10-29, 2012
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For more info about REASONS TO CUT INTO THE EARTH, look below or check out www.johallaprojects.com!
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Johalla Projects Presents Heidi Norton
Castings of Rockface, Paleozoic Plateau Region, Archival Pigment Print, 42x53, 2012
Johalla Projects and ACRE Residency Presents
Heidi Norton’s Reasons to Cut Into the Earth
February 10-29th
Opening Reception: Friday, February 10th, 7-10PM
Daytime Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-5PM, or by appointment
Johalla Projects
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 110
Chicago, Il 60622
Reasons to cut into the earth
1. An archaeological dig: a prevalent way to recover human history is through archaeological excavation. Archaeology is a loose discipline. The methods of unearthing are scientific and restrained, but the things you look for when digging like an archaeologist are numerous and sometimes completely unknown.
2. To see what’s growing underneath. She dug holes into the earth all summer, her hair tied up in a bandana. She built a studio in the woods, using the holes she dug as molds into which she poured colored wax, capturing flowers, insects, and weeds in the viscous bright liquid. (When big chunks of glaciers get stuck in earth, they create giant pools of ice that result in holes when they melt. Geologists call these holes “kettles,” and lakes often form in these depressions.) When she was a young girl in West Virginia, she dug holes to explore the parts of the world that were just barely invisible but still attainable to her. The work that she did digging those holes was unprofessionalized and undifferentiated. She could have been looking for fossils or diamonds or evidence of human history before her.
3. A geology sample: this object contains a hidden story that helps to analyze the history of the land. Geology samples are beautiful tubes of stratified sediment, about as wide as tennis ball containers, created through special methods of drilling. You have to learn the language of the colors and textures of compacted sediment layering the cylinder to tell a story about the hidden parts of the earth. See: archaeology.
4. Quarries and mines: this is a very violent thing to do. People who are paid to do this work often die. Sometimes it creates lakes to swim in after. (She grew up swimming in a quarry, so even to this day she cannot think of quarries without the warmth of that memory coming over her.) With quarries and mines, you are looking for something valuable, for treasures that you will bring elsewhere.
5. Gardening: this is also a fairly violent way to cut into the earth, depending on what you’re gardening and whether you plan to pull it up or look at.
Page 5
In previous works Heidi uses prefabricated molds in a controlled studio environment to create geometric forms of wax and resin with plants embedded inside. In her new work, she take these traditional studio materials and cast them into the earth, layering plants and other life inside.
Above, “Page 5”, is an excerpt from a chapter in “Art in the Earth: A Field Guide from the Soil to the Studio”, an artist book that will be included in the exhibition. Heidi is collaborating on this book project with writer Monica Westin. One version, using appropriated album boxes, will take the form of an artist monograph and field guide. A second variation will be available as a limited edition artist book.
Heidi Norton, originally from Baltimore, MD received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2002. Her work has been exhibited all over Chicago in venues such as Monique Meloche Gallery, Dominican University, and Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Nationally and internationally, Norton’s has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in Baltimore, the Knitting Factory in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, London, and Valenica, Spain. This past year she had solo shows in San Francisco at Hungry Man Gallery, EBERSMOORE and NEIU in Chicago. Her solo exhibition at EBERSMOORE was reviewed in the September 2011 issue of Frieze. She was voted solo show of the year by New City 2011 and Top 10 Art Exhibition in Chicago 2011 by TimeOut. She is represented by EBERSMOORE.
Find Heidi Norton here and ACRE Residency here.
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Johalla Projects Presents Montgomery Kim
Johalla Projects and ACRE Residency Presents
Once, We Were Giants
A solo exhibition by Montgomery Kim
February 2 – 6, 2012
Please join us for an opening on THURSDAY, February 2nd, from 7 – 10pm
Johalla Projects
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 110
Chicago, Il 60622
By Appointment Only
Once, We Were Giants
In our era of super-technologies and hyper-infrastructures, the gap between body and mind seems to become exponentially smaller and blurred. The link between the physical world around us and ideology seamlessly blend into one another, as one is borne from the other in no discernible order. The niches we establish are formed by ever more calculated measures, which we perceive as extensions of our selves. In so doing, our person- our physical being – not only becomes one with external stimuli, but exists with infinite potential. It is possible now for us to immortalize our selves, not through God, but by becoming gods of our own.
The process for producing these works has been one of collecting and combining distinct visual elements from one overarching theme, and combining them in a collage-like manner. The elements presented in a piece, though visually cohesive, are meant to be brought together in the viewer’s mind in an intuitive manner. The shapes, colors, and objects brought together in these works exist through a kind of dream logic, whereby these elements ebb and flow between being singular parts and being a singular unit.
The primary conceptual concern was a term used by economists to describe excess consumption and over-saturation. This law of diminishing marginal utility was once described to Kim as follows:
“You purchase one whole cake for $5. It is a delicious cake and you are allowed to eat as much as you please. You are not, however, allowed to take any of it home. So you stuff your face with as much cake as possible. After the second or third slice, you will most likely not be enjoying your cake anymore. But you’ve paid for the whole cake and it would seem a waste to not get your money’s worth. What you do not realize is that the $5 dollars you paid is gone, and that there is only one peak point of satisfaction when consuming anything. Anything after this point is either dissatisfying and burdensome, or completely neutralized in its worth.”
Montgomery (Bum Joo) Kim works primarily with wood and pre-made objects. Kim explores themes of intercultural exchange and globalization and their effects on social consciousness. By looking at traditional imagery through the lens of contemporaneity, the objects and scenarios Kim creates are paradoxical attempts at nostalgia; they are memorabilia from a potential past, present or future.
Kim is a sculptor from Mexico City, Mexico. He graduated from The School of the Art Institute in 2011 with a BFA with a focus in Sculpture, for which he was awarded the Edward Ryerson Fellowship award. He is currently based in Chicago, and is the Gallery Assistant and Project Director for THE LAND: Artist Residency Program at the Chicago Urban Art Society.
Find Kim here!
